It's pretty much everything you loved about vanilla Battle Brothers, but deeper. More bridge weapons like a mace/spear hybrid, a small perk rework, lots of new beasts with new mechanics and drops, crafting and painting (finally my band can build up a color scheme!), and a bunch of new lore/contracts/writing. You can help rebuild towns that have been raided (but not destroyed).

The Unhold are pretty brutal, especially when charmed by a Hexe which seemed particularly unfair for a day 30 run-in, but hey, the raging unfair brutality is why we love this game. Please keep rolling a string of 90s whenever my highest level melees attack. It makes me so happy /sarcasm/.

I am about 10 hours into this DLC and am very satsified with my purchase. I have also seen some new recruit backgrounds which is neat. Also some great quality of life adjustments on ending the turn of all your mercenaries. There was ONE, solitary bug where a merchant approaches me with vials, it's only one paragraph long and it seems like maybe it's missing a ton of other copy because that one paragraph makes no sense alone. Then it asks for Deal or No Deal. I chose No Deal because I didn't know what was going and was just leaving the city on a parcel delivery quest and couldn't afford to accidently screw it up.

I get that this game is suppose to be about a plain mercenary company fighting in a low-fantasy world (with witches and necromancers and orcs just to spice it up a little). But I would kill for like a $9.99 DLC where there is a 1/100 chance a brother develops sorcery powers or something days after your hire him. Make it optional like this DLC. I would pay for it. Think the Psi warriors from Xcom2, but more rare. There is nothing more fun than taking a beggar and making him a vicious level 12 swordsman, I think having the chance to take even rarer journeys with someone becoming a wizard would be awesome. Especially for us Iron Man addicts.

Anyways, back to Beasts and Exploration. I love it, you should buy it. These guys know what they are doing.

It's pretty much everything you loved about vanilla Battle Brothers, but deeper. More bridge weapons like a mace/spear hybrid, a small perk rework, lots of new beasts with new mechanics and drops, crafting and painting (finally my band can build up a color scheme!), and a bunch of new lore/contracts/writing. You can help rebuild towns that have been raided (but not destroyed). The Unhold are pretty brutal, especially when charmed by a Hexe which seemed particularly unfair for a day 30 run-in, but hey, the raging unfair brutality is why we love this game. Please keep rolling a string of 90s whenever my highest level melees attack. It makes me so happy /sarcasm/. I am about 10 hours into this DLC and am very satsified with my purchase. I have also seen some new recruit backgrounds which is neat. Also some great quality of life adjustments on ending the turn of all your mercenaries. There was ONE, solitary bug where a merchant approaches me with vials, it's only one paragraph long and it seems like maybe it's missing a ton of other copy because that one paragraph makes no sense alone. Then it asks for Deal or No Deal. I chose No Deal because I didn't know what was going and was just leaving the city on a parcel delivery quest and couldn't afford to accidently screw it up. I get that this game is suppose to be about a plain mercenary company fighting in a low-fantasy world (with witches and necromancers and orcs just to spice it up a little). But I would kill for like a $9.99 DLC where there is a 1/100 chance a brother develops sorcery powers or something days after your hire him. Make it optional like this DLC. I would pay for it. Think the Psi warriors from Xcom2, but more rare. There is nothing more fun than taking a beggar and making him a vicious level 12 swordsman, I think having the chance to take even rarer journeys with someone becoming a wizard would be awesome. Especially for us Iron Man addicts. Anyways, back to Beasts and Exploration. I love it, you should buy it. These guys know what they are doing.